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Return `true` if a publication thread is running, and `false` otherwise&period; Note that records received by the `publish` method will still be added to the record queue even if there is no publication thread running&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;ball&lowbar;asyncfileobserver&period;h&gt;`

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bool
isPublicationThreadRunning() const;
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